haversoe
13d ago
Interesting. I've been exposed to this character only recently with his media blitz. He gives me ace vibes. Would one be exposed to the "balance of evidence" for his active gay lifestyle by watching his daily show?
haversoe
13d ago
Fuentes can stay what he is now, a gadfly and proselytizer ... groyper influence in politics will not grow above a certain threshold
My gut tells me you're right, but these various beliefs of his evidently have massive support among the up and coming, politically active right-wing youngsters, like those that staff congressional offices, think tanks, the White house, regional and university young republican orgs, etc. Claims that these are fringe views and are therefor only held by the fringe look to be untrue. And thus the idea that these views will never achieve escape velocity might have less support than imagined.
DARPA has had AI since at least 1969. I heard a presentation by a very senior (in both age and rank) DARPA scientist and he mentioned that his research program in machine learning started that year. He also mentioned that he was awarded his PhD in 1964 and I believe his doctoral work was also in ML, though I'm not 100% on that. In any case, his work was in ML speech detection. Incidentally, he was very bearish on AGI and called out nearly everything we hear about the topic as lies and marketing. This was a couple of years ago.
haversoe
23d ago
You might also consider adjusting the temperature at night in your bedroom if it isn't already in the 60°-65° F range. It sounds cold (and it is, so you'll need plenty of blankets) but since I've done this I wake up less frequently during the night, fall back asleep more quickly when I do wake up and have all but cured my early-morning insomnia. I don't have any high-quality sources for this. I just picked it up from a random youtube video.
haversoe
24d ago
the navy should have sent a rescue crew out to pick up anyone in the water
The US military takes prisoners of war because the US is a civilized nation. I believe the Navy absolutely would have rescued the survivors if the situation was straight-forward. But it's not and what exactly happened and what the point of the second strike was remains to be seen.
haversoe
24d ago
Killing combatants who are hors de combat (i.e. providing "no quarter") is illegal for signatories of the Hague convention of 1899. It's a war crime. In any case, it's not clear that's what happened and I assume that's why Congress is investigating. If they find evidence the civilian leadership committed a war crime, I have no idea where it goes from there. When it's a uniformed guy, the military branch convenes a court martial and hopefully justice is served one way or the other. But when is the last time a department head has been found guilty of anything?
haversoe
26d ago
But not universally, at least not as it stands today. Most EOs aren't cancelled for political optics reasons, as far as I can tell. They're more usually superseded by laws or struck down by courts. Despite that generally being the case, there's an EO signed in 1948 that is still technically in effect. There are also orders from Kennedy, Carter, Bush I and Clinton on the books. Furthermore, there are many EOs from GW Bush and Obama that have never been rescinded or superseded.
haversoe
2mo ago
Fair enough, but there might be a substantial percentage of young people on the right (though it might be approximately zero for all I know) who want to round up all the jews and exterminate them and return all the blacks to chains. At least they claim this is what they want, or so the rumor goes.
Evidently we can't call these people Nazis because the term's become meaningless and, besides, some kids get off on being shocking. So the discussion has essentially gone nowhere. Though now I'm curious how many people here are actually supportive of an American Jewish genocide or a return to legal private slavery or of some other course of action that is way, way, waaaaay outside the Overton window and just a minute ago was super-duper-ultra-taboo. The discussion of those particulars can't really be derailed by someone's individual definition of what he thinks a Nazi is.
haversoe
3mo ago
Now am I vanishingly unlikely to be the target of an ICE raid? Sure.
As long as they're not working off of bad intel or a warrant or other paperwork with typos.
haversoe
3mo ago
For a civil war to happen in America, the power of the government has to be broken.
It seems to me implicit in this is defining a (future) civil war in America to be between two armies, like the blues vs. the greys, or a large insurgency like the Tamil Tigers. I agree that neither of those will come to pass while there's still a strong central government. But a state of affairs similar to the troubles in Ireland (similar in methodology, i.e. bombings, assassinations, etc.) is within the realm of possibility if something doesn't change, though there's something inside me that insists we'll all come to our senses before that happens.
haversoe
3mo ago
Yes. What's considered "the right" is a very big tent. The evangelical Christian white guys who love NASCAR, pickups and guns and have strong opinions about the rebranding of Cracker Barrel are just a subset of a very diverse whole.
haversoe
3mo ago
or right-wing-equivalent-thereof
He evidently thinks you'll be able to make 6 figures working for either side.
People already make 6+ figures being demented culture warriors on Twitch, Youtube, and T-T.
$100K is not as much as it used to be. There are plenty of military members in the US that make that, not to mention civil servants working with the military.
haversoe
3mo ago
Before Columbine, nobody had ever heard of a school shooting, so nobody did school shootings
Charles Whitman shot and killed 15 people (and injured 31 others) at the University of Texas in 1966. Surprisingly, it was not the only notable school shooting that year. I think part of the reason Columbine sticks out for us as being "the first of its kind" is because there is video footage of them murdering their classmates.
I had similar experiences regarding Koreans and Jews in the late 1990s. I found it very weird then (why would they even have any opinions? it's not like there are any Jews in Korea except a small handful of soldiers at Yongsan...) and I find it very weird now. But I also found them in general to be well-educated but somehow still extremely credulous people and maybe that's the crux of it. I wonder if that's still true.
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